About Author : Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC, and he died young probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived (by comparison, his predecessor Plautus wrote twenty-one extant plays).
Terence Quotations and Quotes
While there’s life there’s hope.
Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto.I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT. Fortune favors the brave.
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
That is true wisdom to know how to alter one’s mind when occasion demands it.
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
So many men so many questions.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Their silence is sufficient praise.
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror and from others to take an example for himself.
I am a man and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
I have everything yet have nothing and although I possess nothing still of nothing am I in want.
Moderation in all things.
What is done let us leave alone.
Charity begins at home.
Fortune helps the brave.